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Table 1 Recruitment Rates; Proyecto Buena Salud, Western Massachusetts, 2006-2008.

From: Strategies for recruiting Hispanic women into a prospective cohort study of modifiable risk factors for gestational diabetes mellitus

 

Total

 

n

%

Potential Participants

8747

100%

   Not approached

3980

45.5%

No show/cancellation

2189

55.0%

Unable to contact*

1791

45.0%

   Ineligible

3142

35.9%

Preexisting disease

125

4.0%

Not Puerto Rican/Dominican

982

31.2%

Other Ineligibility

2035

64.8%

   Eligible

1625

18.6%

Refused

774

47.6%

Recruited

851

52.4%

  1. *Combination of missed interviewer busy and missed other reason.
  2. † Younger than 16 yrs, >20 wks gestation, taking prednisone, twins/triplets.